Clothes-line-supporting device.



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CLOTHES LINE SUPPORTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26

Patented Dec. 27, 1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oFFioE.

VICTOR A. ROUILLIARD, 0F FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LOUIS P. CLAPIN, 0F FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTHES-LINE SUPPORTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 25, 1909.

Patented Dec. 27, 1910.

Serial No. 519,545.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR A. RoUiLLmnn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fall River, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Line-Supporting Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a class of line supports that are arranged at a window for supporting an endless clothes line at the window and at a distance, so as to enable the hanging of clothing or other washed fabric on the line adjacent to the window, and permit the line to be moved longitudinally for a free exposure of the goods on the line to facilitate drying of the same.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a device of the character indicated, having novel features that enable the placing of the clothes line support at a window, without a permanent attachment to the easement of the window, and permit a closure of the opening resulting from raising the window sash, so as to avoid any considerable air draft therethrough.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts, in all the views.

Figure 1 is an inner side view of the lower portion of a window casement, and of the improvement placed in the easement below the lower window sash that is raised; Fig. 2

is a sectional plan view of the window case-' ment, substantially on the line 2-2 in Fig. l; and a broken plan View of the improved line support arranged in connection with the easement; and Fig. 3 is a side view of a bracket arm and a pulley hung from said arm.

In the drawings, 5 indicates a window casement of ordinary construction, and 6 a lower sash slidably held in the window casement as usual. An endless clothes line 7 is arranged as shown in Fi 2, portions of the line that are designed for an exposure of washed fabric exterior to the window casement 5, being supported in a horizontal plane, by two pulleys 8, 8, that are rotatably supported on bracket arms 9, 9 shown broken in Fig. 2, but that in complete condition are shaped as represented in Fig. 3, said arms being secured upon any convenient stable support at a proper distance apart.

The improvement embodies a rectangular frame, formed in two equal sections 10, 10, that are lapped together, and secured at desired. points of extension by forming opposite longitudinal slots 0, in the top and bottom members of the frame sections, and inserting clamping bolts 1) through said slots,

the threaded projecting ends of the bolts receiving winged nuts 0 that by adjustment secure the lapped portions of the frame sections together. The frame sections 10 are each provided with a vertical bar 10, that is secured at its ends upon the top and. bottom rails of a respective frame section. These vertical bars 1 a are disposed at a proper distance from and parallel with respective side members 10 of the frame sections. and provide inner vertical frame members, which with the vertical frame members 10 that are upon the lapped portions of the frame sections 10, atl'ord two similar rectangular frames, that are furnished respectively with a pane of glass 11, thus closing said' portions of the frame sections against air currents.

Between the vertical bar 10 and the correspondin outer vertical frame member 10 of each rame section 10, an opening is formed, that is normally closed by means of a door 12. Each door 12 is hinged as at (Z upon the inner edge of a respective outer vertical frame member 10, thus adapting said doors to swing toward the vertical frame members 10 and close the openings between said frame members.

Upon the upper horizontal members of the main frame sections 10, 10, a bracket frame is secured and projects inwardly therefrom. The bracket frame comprises two similar portions each embodying a straight bar 13, from one end of which an arm 14 extends at a right angle, said arms where they join the respective bars 13 being ofl'set as best shown at e, in Fig. 1. The adjacent ends of the bars 13 are loosely secured together, by means of a tubular coupling box 15, whereby they are disposed in alinement and adapted for extension or contraction as the situation may require. Upon the remaining ends of the arms 14, flanges g are formed or secured, that are seated and attached upon the top frame bars of the frame sections 10, near the vertical frame members 10 and as shown in Fig. 1 the offsets e, e, dispose the two part frame bar 18, 13 in a plane below the flanges g, and opposite the upper portions of the doors 12.

It will be seen that the construction of the frame sections 10 and the connection of the two part frame bar 13 therewith, permit the frame sections to be readily fitted into the opposite channels in the easement jambs, wherein the lower sash 6 is slidably retained, and the height of said adjustable frame is such that it may be placed in position below the raised lower sash quickly in an obvious manner.

Near the off-sets e, 6, two similar pulleys 72 h, are rotatably secured by their engagement with bracket frames h, that are attached to the members of the frame bar 13, and as shown in Fig. 2, the pulleys h are respectively disposed opposite the pulleys S, 8. A notch i is formed in the free inner edge of each door 12, near the upper ends of the latter, in the same horizontal plane with that of the endless line 7. The line 7 in completed condition, is passed loosely through the notches i when the doors are closed, and engaged with the pulleys it, as shown in Fig. 2, thus disposing a run of the line across the window, and when the doors 12 are opened by folding them away from the frame bars 10, free access to the side members of the line is permitted. The door may remain closed until one or more pieces of fabric to be dried are placed on the inner portion of one of the side runs of the line 7, and then by longitudinally moving said run outward through the space produced by opening the adjacent door, the fabric may be quickly transferred outward into the open air, and the door closed until more washed material is placed on the side run of the line that is partly occupied by the goods first placed thereon. Obviously, by longitudinally moving the line the clothes line portion that is disposed exterior of the window may be filled with damp fabric for exposure of said goods in the open air, and it is evident the side members of the line 7 may have any convenient length, and that goods may be placed thereon without exposure of the person to cold drafts of air.

As shown in Fig. 8, the pair of pulleys 8, 8 are each formed with a neck m, at the upper end thereof, from which said pulley flares outward and downward, thus providing a coniform body therefor. This peculiar construction of the pulleys 8 adapts them for retention of the line 7, thereon, and as the line may move outward on the pulleys, material on the line will pass around the pulleys freely, thus permitting the outer runs of the line to be filled with fibrous or other material to be dried or aired.

Having described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a clothes line support, a frame formed-of two sections adjustably secured together, each section being provided with a hinged door, and on its inner face with a bar spaced therefrom, the bars of the sections having an adjustable connection one with the other and each provided with a pulley opposite the door.

2. In a clothes line support, a frame formed of two sections adjustably secured together, each section being provided with a hinged door, and on its inner face with a bar having an angular arm by which it is secured to the section, the bars telescoping one in the other and each provided with a pulley opposite the door.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VICTOR A. ROUILLIARD. lVit-nesses ALVIN G. WVEEKs, S. M. LAMARRE. 

